Nicola Griffith

Writer. Queer cripple with a PhD. Seattle & Leeds.

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Month: August 2011

My BBC Radio 4 thing

Part one of the BBC Radio 4 programme, Cat Women of the Moon, is up on iPlayer. It’s an interesting mix of…

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Posted on August 30, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

It’s time for the Lambda Literary Foundation to stand up

The Lambda Literary Foundation released its new award eligibility criteria today: LGBT authors will be recognized with three awards marking stages of…

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Posted on August 29, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Alisha Baker prints for sale

Alisha Baker, We Dance the World Into and Out of Creation, relief print on paper hand-painted frame acrylic on wood, 14″x17″ $215….

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Posted on August 29, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Are queers human?

From lippenheimer, a thoughtful review of Slow River, pondering the consequences of straight/queer equality: One of the main questions that classic feminist…

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Posted on August 28, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Clarion West one-day writing workshops

Clarion West is the best genre writing workshop in the world. It’s a six-week writing boot camp in Seattle. Each week is…

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Posted on August 27, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

I own seventh-century Britain

this is all mine… I spent some time yesterday pondering domain names for the Hild novels. Then I went shopping. I got…

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Posted on August 26, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Radio Times review of ‘Cat Women of the Moon’: sex and gender in sf

Just found this Radio Times review of “Cat Women of the Moon,” the 2-part BBC Radio 4 documentary about sex and gender…

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Posted on August 25, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

How lucky I am

Yesterday, I saw this tweet from @oatmeal. (You have to go click the link and look at the photo or this post…

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Posted on August 24, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Second draft of Hild is done, baby, done

I’ve just finished the second draft of Hild. It weighs in at 962 pages: 196,221 words. It started out at 976. I…

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Posted on August 22, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

From Ur or Roman Britain?

Here’s a guessing game for you. Is this jar Roman (from first century Britain) or is it from the ancient city of…

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Posted on August 20, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Finally bronze bras make sense

As anyone who’s read Patrick O’Brian knows, it’s best to fight duels without clothes (cloth pushed into a wound via blade or…

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Posted on August 19, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Cat Women of the Moon

No, I’m not referring to the, ah, classic 1953 movie starring Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory and Marie Windsor, but to a BBC…

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Posted on August 18, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Free wine and pretty pictures: Alisha Baker, Thursday

Alisha Baker, “Dancing with Chaos” (18″ x 24″) A reminder to come join me and Kelley at Alisha’s Baker’s gallery show here…

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Posted on August 17, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Sex is better than cream cake, and Elvis sucks

I still haven’t forgiven Elvis for dying. I wake up cross on August 16th every year. (No, not really. But every year…

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Posted on August 16, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

I need your help

Three years ago I wrote a blog post called You’ve been warned, a combination rant, promise, and manifesto. A couple of weeks…

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Posted on August 15, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Fun with maths!

From Vi Hart, two nifty videos of ways to play with maths. And I mean play. It’s Sunday. That’s what Sunday is…

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Posted on August 14, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

How to make a chocolate book

I’m busy with Hild today so I thought I’d amuse you with this notion: making books of chocolate. If your definition of…

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Posted on August 13, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Silence on the Salish Sea

photo taken with crapcam, sorry about that I woke to time out of time: a still morning draped in silence and mist….

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Posted on August 12, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Vines do grow

The honeysuckle is blossoming, twining vinously over everything. Sort of like my Hild sentences. The vines, though, will just get bigger and…

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Posted on August 11, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Join us and Alisha Baker, August 18th Seattle

One of our favourite artists is Alisha Baker. We own four of her paintings. Three of them live in the Alisha Baker…

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Posted on August 10, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The QED seal of approval for ebooks

This strikes me as a step forward. Publishing Innovation Awards has announced the QED seal, a “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval™ for…

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Posted on August 9, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Cutting a language core through the bedrock of English

I posted this yesterday on my other blog. Most of you, I’m sure, don’t read that. So: —- One of the big…

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Posted on August 8, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

In Time: movie trailer

http://cdn.springboard.gorillanation.com/storage/xplayer/yo033.swf This looks interesting in a metaphor-made-concrete way: time is money. I’m out for the rest of the day: Hild is demanding…

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Posted on August 7, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Maimkilldestroy

Somewhere in Seattle there’s a nurse with a crushed hand. My fault. She was holding my hand while another nurse was trying,…

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Posted on August 6, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Changing gears with LLF

After two years as a Trustee of the Lambda Literary Foundation, it’s time for me to change gears. It seems like a…

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Posted on August 4, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
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